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Heidi Levine
BornBoston, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationPhotojournalist

Heidi Levine is an American freelance photojournalist who has worked for the Associated Press, Sipa Press, and The Washington Post. She has spent much of her career covering the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Early life and education

Levine was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father was passionate about photography, and bought Levine her first camera; they would walk around Boston taking pictures. Her first interest in the field was to photograph under-privileged areas of Boston and New York. At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she was the school paper photographer. During a break, she went to Israel to work for six weeks at a kibbutz. While there, she applied to the Associated Press and received a job offer. Figuring that working as a photojournalist would be educationally better than college journalism classes, she took the offer, and in 1983 started her photojournalism career in Israel as a staffer.

Career

Working at A.P. in Israel gave Levine experience in many facets of the field, including editing, lab activities, and interacting with subscribers. She reports difficulty breaking into the field as a woman, describing it as a "boys club." In 1991, she joined the Sipa Press Photo Agency. Based in Israel, most of her coverage has been the violence in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. She has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, and Syria on assignment. She has also covered topics such as female feticide in India, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Syrian refugee crisis.

In February 2022, she went to Ukraine on assignment for The Washington Post. While there covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she photographed the aftermath of the Bucha massacre.

As of October, 2024, Levine is covering the Israel-Hamas war. She has described covering the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as personal and intimate.

Her pictures have been published in many outlets, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Stern, National Geographic, Paris Match, L'Express, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Forbes, and The Globe and Mail.

Awards

Personal

Levine has lived in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and has three children. In Jerusalem, she lived in a mixed neighborhood to expose her children to people of different backgrounds. Her work away from home and in danger zones has led to some disappointments among her children, family and friends. She has had to make compromises that would not allow her "to be the best photographer wished to be."

References

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  4. Krever, Mick (2015-06-25). "The breathtaking war photographs of Heidi Levine". CNN. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
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  7. "Women of The Washington Post Reporting on Ukraine". IWMF. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  8. "In photos: The war in Ukraine one month on".
  9. "'I could go on and on' Photojournalist Heidi Levine on what she saw in Bucha in the days after its liberation". Meduza. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  10. Levine, Heidi (2022-04-10). "'What I've seen in Bucha': photojournalist shares experience". The Guam Daily Post. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  11. "Israeli reservists fight in Gaza but question what comes after the war". Stars and Stripes. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  12. ^ "The Human Cost of the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis in Photos". ELLE. 2021-05-21. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  13. "hamas".
  14. Antunes, Jose (2024-09-19). "Bayeux award for war correspondents is back for the 31st time". Seriously Photography. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  15. Roué, Damien (2015-10-13). "Heidi Levine remporte le Trophée Photo et le Prix du Public aux rencontres des correspondants de guerre à Bayeux". Phototrend (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  16. "UNICEF Photo of the Year 2015 - Press Release". www.unicef.de. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  17. "Honoring the courage of women photojournalists". Associated Press. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  18. "IWMF Announces 2023 Courage in Journalism Award Winners". IWMF. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  19. "Jerusalem-based photographer wins award for courage". The Times of Israel. Associated Press. 2015-06-25. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  20. Burke, Pamela (2013-07-24). "INTERVIEW: Heidi Levine–War Photographer and Working Mom, Part TWO". The Women's Eye. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
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